Kinshofer UK recently held two open days to educate potential users on the benefits of the NOX tilitrotators.  Andrew Little, Kinshofer UK national sales manager (excavators) spoke to Project Plant about the event Q) WHY DID YOU PUT ON THE NOX OPEN DAYS? A) The...

A Perthshire plant hire firm has recently taken delivery of a Doosan DX170W-5 wheeled excavator fitted with a Rototilt R5. Pitlochry-based R.A Laird Contractors was in the market for a 17-tonne excavator to join its fleet of machines used to carry out a range of...

SCOTPLANT 2018 is on track to be the biggest event in the show’s 20-year history, with a string of new exhibitors joining familiar faces in a sterling line-up. Molson Green, Taylor & Braithwaite, Boecker UK, Bay-lynx manufacturing, Wheelmasters UK, Northern Survey Supplies, Bunkabin and Stag...

ABERDEENSHIRE-based JMS Equipment has become the latest dealer in the Truxta network, supplying one of the smallest mini-dumpers in the market. The machines are made by Tufftruk Ltd. Truxta was highly commended at the Plantworx Innovation Awards for safety, with features including a failsafe brake...

MOTHERWELL’S “best-kept secret” is how Terex Trucks director and general manager Paul Douglas jokingly refers to the dump truck manufacturer’s premises, despite the business employing almost 400 people and creating articulated and rigid trucks for use all over the world. When Paul joined the business...

BRIAN Young has revealed it’s been very much business as usual at Young Plant Sales despite selling to the Molson Group. Brian, who has agreed to stay on as managing director at the Doune-based firm for at least the next three years, told Project Plant...

A recent £3.5 million investment in mobile welfare highlights how far Bonnybridge-based LOC Hire has come in a short space of time. The firm, which was founded by Dan Wharton just three years ago, has quickly established itself as a major player in the sector,...

THE Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) recently held a meeting of members in Inverness, followed by a golf outing in Fortrose. Dozens of members attended the meeting, held at the Drumossie Hotel. For the first time, members were encouraged to take stalls within the meeting...

SUPPLIER of excavator undercarriage parts, Astrak UK, is gearing up for “ambitious” growth in the coming years with the expansion of its Kirkcaldy headquarters and a raft of recent appointments. The firm, which is part of the Europe-wide Astrak Group, is doubling its warehouse size...

BREXIT secretary David Davis has visited JCB’s world headquarters, where he sought to reassure some of the manufacturer’s British suppliers that the interests of business are at the heart of the country’s negotiations to leave the European Union. The Minister spent more than two hours at...

A second Case CX130D excavator, fitted with a Rototilt R4 tiltrotator, is hoping to perform above par at golf course specialists John Greasley Ltd. The Uttoxeter-based firm, which builds new golf courses and helps reshape existing ones, decided to make the purchase after being impressed with the performance...

THE Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced it is to stop direct delivery of training as part of a series of “really tough decisions” the organisation has made in the wake of calls to reform. The proposals also include plans to move the CITB’s head...

A Balfron-based woodchip and firewood producer has taken delivery of a new Volvo ECR88D reduced swing excavator that will be put to work on material processing. WoodForFuel.com produces hardwood and softwood logs for wood burning stoves and biomass boilers, along with woodchip for biomass boilers...

FINNING UK & Ireland has announced the launch of a new mobile parts team. The firm said the move was aimed at supporting customers with tailored parts, technology, service, and support solutions for individual machines or plant fleets. Abhishek Tanwar, director of aftermarket and digital...

The Construction Plant-Hire Association (CPA) has released new operational safety guidance for forward tipping dumper operators. ‘Staying Safe When Operating Forward Tipping Dumpers’ is principally aimed at operators for refresher training purposes and its release follows a number of incidents involving tipper dumpers. Key factors...

A team from JCB recently helped in a tribute to the crucial role played by tanks in the First World War. The story of the tanks’ role will be featured in a Channel Four documentary starring TV personality Guy Martin. He wanted to produce a...

KELTBRAY has announced the launch of a mini piling service after seeing an increase in demand for the technique. Keltbray Piling operations director, Lee Cain, will oversee the new offering, which will be provided both as a stand-alone service and as an integrated part of...

BOBCAT has unveiled the newest addition to its telehandler range – the TL30.70. With a maximum lift capacity of three tonnes and lift height of almost seven metres, the manufacturer said the machine has been designed for a “wide range of applications” found in the...

GAP Hire Solutions is in the running for three prizes at the Herald Scottish Family Business Awards 2017. The rental equipment specialist has been shortlisted in the categories of Business Innovation Award, Scottish Family Business of the Year (Large) and Green Family Business of the...

THE Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced a six-point Agenda for Change in the wake of calls for reform from the industry and government. The organisation has vowed to to be more accountable, representative, relevant, responsive, innovative and influential. Addressing recommendations stated in the...